Courts and Judicial Administration

Spring Public Defender Attorney and Investigator Conference

The Spring Public Defender Attorney & Investigator Conference provides training on current topics of interest to public defender attorneys and public defender investigators. Topics at past conferences have included gangs, prison and jail credit, computer forensics, sex offender registration, eyewitness identification, evaluating indigent defense, field sobriety tests, search warrants, and ethics issues for attorneys and investigators. For information about other indigent defense education courses, visit our Indigent Defense Education site.

Attendees

The conference is open to public, appellate, and capital defenders, special counsel, attorneys in the IDS central office, and investigators in a public or capital defender office.  North Carolina private investigators, federal public defender investigators, and members of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation (CDPL), North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc. (PLS), and Fair Trial Initiative (FTI) offices are also welcome. This conference is not open to private attorneys.

Site
Information

The conference will be held at the Hilton North Raleigh in Raleigh, NC.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hilton North Raleigh from Tuesday, May 11 through Saturday, May 15, 2010, at a reduced nightly rate of $92 plus tax. Rates are based on single or double occupancy. To make your reservation online, visit the North Raleigh Hilton's reservation site and use the group code SPD. To make your reservation by phone, call 1-800-HILTONS and indicate that you are making a reservation under the Spring Public Defender and Investigator Conference room block (group code SPD).  The special room rate will be available until April 11, 2010 or until the group block is sold out, whichever comes first. The North Raleigh Hilton is located at 3415 Wake Forest Road in Raleigh.  To contact the hotel directly, please call 919.872.2323.

Faculty
Coordinator

Alyson Grine

Co-Sponsor

Office of Indigent Defense Services